“There would not have been thought to be a problem about the nature of reason had our race confined itself to pointing out particular states of affairs — warning of cliffs and rain, celebrating individual births and deaths. But poetry speaks of man, birth, and death as such, and mathematics prides itself on overlooking individual details.”
– Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
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